Mind, philosophy: the mind is understood to be the activity of thought in the philosophical tradition, or that which enables the human to think. In the tradition the mind is opposed to the body. This traditional concept of mind is often translated as spirit in English. Today the mind is equated with the set of cognitive abilities. See also consciousness, body-soul problem, mind/brain, cognition, computation, spirit._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Grenz I 51
Culture/Adorno/Grenz: culture can only reproduce the ruling one, both formally and in terms of content.
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I 52
Mind/Adorno: the mind thus becomes an affirmative doubling of what already already is.
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Grenz I 67
Mind/Adorno/Grenz: the mind that appears as the 'objective mind of the material' was formerly subjective.
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I Grenz 168
Mind/Adorno/Grenz: that the mind separated from the real life-relations becomes independent of them, is not only its untruth but also its truth. ... the irrevocable independence of the mind towards society, the promise of freedom, is as much a social as the unity of both. (Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 8, p. 121).
Grenz: thus: the historical movement of the present is conceived as a reconstruction.
Culture/Adorno/Grenz: If culture is understood as the de-barbaric, the transition to the phase after the time when the culture could have been appropriated...
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I 169
...and must have been appropriated, barbarism, is anthropologically speaking regression. (See Dialektik der Aufklärung, p.22f).
Anthropogenesis: is determined by Adorno as declining. E.g. Regression of hearing._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals
indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate
the page number. The corresponding books
are indicated on the right hand side.
((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.
The note [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.